A 23-year-old man, Ahmed Ishola, who allegedly bit off the lower lip and tongue of a Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps official on Monday appeared in a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court.
The police charged Ishola with two counts of assault and breach of peace.
He pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Insp. Ben Ekundayo told the court that the defendant committed the offence on June 18, at about 8.30 a.m. at Elegbata Street, Lagos Island
He said that the defendant bit off the lower lip and tongue of a neighbourhood watch who tried to intervene when Ishola was beating up his girl friend.
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“The defendant was beating his girlfriend in front of Nawarudeen Central Mosque and the complainant tried to intervene but Ishola came at him with a broken bottle.
“While wrestling to take the broken bottle from the defendant, he bit off the neighbourhood watch’s lower lip and tongue causing him serious injury,’’ Ekundayo said.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 57 (1)(a), 171 and 284 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015.
Section 51 prescribes two years imprisonment for breach of peace while 171 and 284 stipulates three years imprisonment for assault occasioning grievous harm and theft respectively.
The Magistrate, Mrs A.M Olumide-Fusika admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
She adjourned the case until Aug. 9 for trial.(NAN)
